libhomeradar is an easy to use library for all type of programming language which can use libraries. libhomeradar can connect to different sources to collect aircraft informations arround the world with extended informations, powerful filtering and structured data access.

libhomeradar is written in C and is available for Linux and Windows (2003, XP, NT, Vista).

Currently libhomeradar works with the Kinetic Avionics SBS-1 base station and the Airnav Systems Radarbox.

03/Nov/2010Since we have a small partnership with FlightGlobal every contributor to libhomeradar can decide to send his contacts also to the Atlas realtime flash map.Simply download the small Windows Application [446 KB]
and start contributing your contacts to libhomeradar and (if you wish) also to the Atlas map.Do contribute contacts to the Atlas map, you need a personal account.

libhomeradar - Latest news

25/Oct/2010Added a new option for users with personal accounts. If aircraft information will be added for unknown contacts, a user with an personal account will get an information mail to update his own local database.

15/Sep/2010We are sorry, but the search options on the public page have been changed. The starts with or contains option is no longer available. There is currently no other way to control the high database traffic. We are glad about the new server but in real we need at least 3 running servers with the current traffic. Users with personal pages still have the extended search options!

31/May/2010Our new server (Quad XEON 3.2GHz, 16GB RAM) is now finally in use. Database requests are now back in full speed.

02/Mar/2010Our public API is now also available as a special page for smartphone users. Read more...

01/Feb/2010Because of a short holiday break, our support is not reachable from February 05th until February 23rd.In case of technical problems please send a mail to rh@libhomeradar.org

01/Feb/2010The bug within the aiport search is fixed. Sorry for that!

25/Jan/2010We have fixed a small bug within the personal data display section. The database access is sometimes very busy. We still wait for the memory upgrade.03/Nov/2009Because of some claims from different business and private pilots we have added a black- and blocklist for aircrafts.If you wish to remove your aircraft completly from the public database you can send us a short mail.There are 2 possible exclusions:

#1 - total exclusion (blocklisting by registration - the database will result with 'aircraft not found' even if there are some records)#2 - blacklisting (The last 2 characters from the aircraft registration will be deleted. For example: D-ABCD will be D-AB##)

13/Jun/2009Released a preview version of winsend2 for all personal account owners

10/Jun/2009Added new option to the personal pages to enable/disable daily summary mails.

08/Jun/2009Some minor bugs within the personal section fixed. Also fixed the link for the unknown flights.

04/Jun/2009We have switched to our new designed flight database. During the next days some errormessages are possible until we have checked all SQL statements.Now every visitor can send flightdata if he know the route for a flight. (On the details page)

24/May/2009Added a list with latest aircraft updates.Fixed a bug within the personal pages settings administration.Added new option for users of the personal pages. A list with unresolvable ICAO24 codes is now available.

06/Dec/2008Databases will be exported every midnight and can be downloaded from the download section.

25/Nov/2008 - libhomeradar aircraft lookup widget

We have released our widget for your aviation website. You can enhance your website by adding our database lookup widget. Users can search by aircraft reg or ICAO24 address
The result include all needed aircraft type and address informations and informations about the last contact (if available).

19/Nov/2008Since we get our contacts from different sources and also from logfiles, it's difficult to set correct timestamps. For this reason we have removed the timestamp from imported contacts. Contacts which are imported from live systems ar available with full a timestamp (date & time)

16/Oct/2008The countrylist table was redesign. Requests for the list of contacted aircraft by country is fast.The currently slowest request is to get details for a flight on a often contacted airline. We work on this.The listing of the aircraft with missing information has changed and also the URL to get this listing.

12/Oct/2008Optimized some DB queries. We get a new server soon :) Included list of aircraft manufacturer.

03/Oct/2008You can now save your search results to the quicksearch board, send search results to a friend or post search results in a forum or use search results within your HTML code (you'll find the link over the search results table)

16/Aug/2008Because of a lot of simultaneous search queries, our server is sometimes very slow. We are working on a little bit of database optimization but in the near future we have to change our hardware. Currently we are looking forward to get a fast machine sponsored soon.

05/Aug/2008Our both testservers (sbs1.libhomeradar.org and radarbox.libhomeradar.org) are online again after some hardware reconstructions. New search options added to the contact database search engine. libhomeradar 1.005 currently in beta test.

01/Jul/2008Search queries which are running very long will be terminated by the server after 30 seconds. New fast indices created for flightnumber search and airport search.

30/Jun/2008Its now possible to resort search results by clicking on the table header.

24/Jun/2008Added a detail page for every contacted aircraft with type listing ordered by construction number. You'll find the link within the contact details view.Our Radarbox server is currently offline!

08/May/2008Added more search options to the search result page. Business Flight will be added for all Business flights (Callsign=Flightnumber=Registration)No photo link if the aircraft is not known. No 'all flights from this airline' for Business flights.

17/Apr/2008Userinterface added to make it possible for our visitors to add aircraft details if missing. Database optimized to get faster results.

30/Mar/2008libhomeradar 1.002 for Linux is released. More options for database search added to the database lookup page. A quicklookup widget (upper right corner) is also available now. You can make a quick search for ICAO24 frame id's, flights, airlines and registrations.

24/Mar/2008libhomeradar 1.002 for Windows is released. Included now a small usage example binary to connect to a server and to display the contacted aircrafts in your favorite web browser. (See the documentation for the new features of libhomeradar 1.002)Linux version will be available soon.

27/Feb/2008Because of a small bug in the download script, MSIE users could not download any files from us. The bug is fixed (download script removed) and everybody can now download all type of files (from the download area)

26/Feb/2008Page was made public after a long period of testing. If you use libhomeradar and you find it useful, feel free to write us. If you find a bug or need a feature - write us!